FreeBSD git weekly: 2025-09-01 to 2025-09-30

Introduction

This is a display of mostly-automatically-classified git commits from 2025-09-01 to 2025-09-30.

In the future, these reports might include summaries or additional information, but for now our focus is figuring out what type of classification would be most useful.

This report is still in progress.

Table of contents and commits per category:

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For extra visibility, these are copies of commits found in other sections. Most (if not all) come from the commit message containing "Relnotes:", or commits modifying UPDATING.

There's no need for an implied value judgement.

Suggested by:   jhb
Reviewed by:    kib, jhb
Sponsored by:   The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D52351

Add kqueue tracking to jails, inspired by how it's done with processes.
EVFILT_JAIL takes a jail ID, and tracks with NOTE_JAIL_SET,
NOTE_JAIL_ATTACH, NOTE_JAIL_REMOVE, and NOTE_JAIL_CHILD. It also uses
the NOTE_TRACK mechanism that EVFILT_PROC uses, using the same result
flags (NOTE_CHILD and NOTE_TRACKERR).

Relnotes:       yes
Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D51940

Similar to process descriptors, jail desriptors are allow jail
administration using the file descriptor interface instead of JIDs.
They come from and can be used by jail_set(2) and jail_get(2),
and there are two new system calls, jail_attach_jd(2) and
jail_remove_jd(2).

Reviewed by:    bz, brooks
Relnotes:       yes
Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D43696

* Bumps to versions in lib/clang
* Bumps to sys/conf/newvers.sh and sys/sys/param.h
* Update to UPDATING

Approved by:    re (implicit)
Sponsored by:   https://www.patreon.com/cperciva

Manpages are very small, and having a separate manpages package for
every base package is quite annoying for users.  Turn this option
off by default.

Discussed with: bapt
Reviewed by:    manu, emaste
MFC after:      3 days
Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D52417

Fixes:                https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=dd8c666d8b78 ("src.sys.mk: Support src.conf in SRCTOP")

Fixed typos in UPDATING

Signed-off-by: Harry Fellowes <harryfellowes1@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: imp
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1846

Enabled qat driver support for 402xx device with
ID 0x4944/0x4945. This is an additional device supported
under the existing qat_4xxx driver. Firmwares specific to
the 402xx device are added.

Signed-off-by: Hareshx Sankar Raj <hareshx.sankar.raj@intel.com>

Relnotes:       yes
Sponsored by:   Intel Corporation
MFC after:      1 month
Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D52488

Technical notes

Dates:

• The dates are "approximate" because git has no record of exactly when each commit was added. The "author date" and "commit date" are text fields controlled by each committer, not the actual dates. Git accurately records the order of commits, but not their dates.

Automatic grouping:

• "Commit & revert pair" groups were automatically grouped when a commit's (full) message contained

  This reverts commit \\b([0-9a-fA-F]{40})\\b

  and the hash was found in this week's commits.
• "Commit group #" groups were automatically grouped when 3 or more consecutive commits by the same author had the same category and summary prefix.

Automatic categories:

• Commits were (mostly) automatically classified based on regex pattern-matching on the commit's modified files, summary, or the whole commit message. The goal is to have the system automatically classify 95% of the commits, with 95% accuracy; then we'll manually check the results and fix the incorrectly-classified and unclassified commits.

Source code:

• https://github.com/Tarsnap/freebsd-git-weekly